Best Reading Books Thoughts
205 Reading Books quotes by 182 unique authors
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I…
— Henry David Thoreau
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If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
— Alvin Toffler
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Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.
— Mike Tyson
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
— Gore Vidal
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Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.
— Evelyn Waugh
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You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.
— Earl Wilson
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I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
— Steven Wright
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The implications are clear: Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music, reading books and even browsing is done not just…
— Evgeny Morozov
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
— Oscar Wilde
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I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
— C.S. Lewis
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...That he'd seen...two people, a young man and a woman, sitting on invisible furniture with their feet up, reading books and eating chocolates.
— Megan Whalen Turner
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I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
— Wislawa Szymborska
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My mother was good at reading books, making cinnamon biscuits, and coloring in a coloring book. Also she was a good eater of popcorn and…
— Haven Kimmel
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My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.
— Brandon Sanderson
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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
— Maxim Gorky
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Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS
— Charles Bukowski
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You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.
— Joseph Delaney
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Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.
— Pat Conroy
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Traditional religions practices are important.They allow us to share with others the communal experience of adoration and prayer,but we must never forget spiritual experience is…
— Paulo Coelho
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Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.
— C.S. Lewis
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Never read a book that is not a year old.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.
— Gary D. Schmidt
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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.
— George R. R. Martin
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I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t…
— Haruki Murakami
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